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A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

1750s, printed after 1778

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A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

1750s, printed after 1778

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 229 x 181 mm. (9 x 7 1/8 in.) Sheet: 389 x 547 mm. (15 5/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plates 2 and 3 from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.2
Bought from Colnaghi's, London, 1937
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

Inscribed: Signed, in plate, at lower right: "B.To" monogram; in plate, at upper right: "2" at lower right, in graphite: "Le serpent brulant sur un autel / A serpent burning on an altar"

Markings: WM: at center, letter A

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